VMware Workstation NAT Configuration

VMware Workstation NAT Configuration – It’s not like the VM Bridged Network connection the VMware Workstation NAT Configuration. You will see a different Ip block your Ip block on the default setting in the Virtual Network Editor for making the VMware Workstation NAT Configuration. By receiving Ip address the virtual machine from Ip block assigned by default in the Virtual Network Editor in the NAT process access the Internet after communicates with the physical network.

VMware Workstation NAT Configuration

VMware Workstation NAT Configuration

You first need to look at the settings in the Virtual Network. Also, You need to control that it’s active of the VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 by going your computer settings to control the VMnet8 for the VMware Workstation Nat Configuration.

VMware Workstation NAT Configuration

By taking a look in the following image, we see the default settings in the Virtual Network Editor.

Now, open the network and share center. And then, control that it’s active the VMnet8 network adapter after you click the Change Adapter Setting. It must be active like the following image.

After the above settings, now, open the VMware Workstation program. Click the option of the network adapter on the virtual machine. We must specify that it will access the Internet with NAT.

In the Virtual Machine Setting window, select the option of “NAT: Used to share the host’s IP address” in the Network Connection section by coming on the network adapter.

After clicking the option of NAT, save the process by clicking the OK button.

Press the Power button to run the virtual machine.

After running the virtual machine having the Windows 10 X64 operating system, open the run window by clicking together the Windows + R buttons to test which Ip address receive. Immediately, type cmd and press enter. You will see the IP address in the IPv4 Address field after you type the config command and pressed the enter key again.

The IP address here is the IP block located at the bottom of the VMnet8 option in the Virtual Network Editor program. You can change the Ip block there as you like.

VMware Workstation NAT Configuration Internet Test

I wonder, does it access the Internet?

The virtual machine can access the Internet by receiving the Ip address from NAT infrastructure. As you see in the above image, the virtual machine is able to access the Internet.

If the virtual machine is able to access the Internet, is it possible to access my physical network?

Of course!

Let’s test immediately whether it access or not. The Ip address of my physical computer is 192.168.1.254. When I ping to this Ip address through the virtual machine, you can see that packets sent successfully.

If you encounter any problem with the “VMware Workstation NAT not working” error, you need to first check the VMware NAT service. You can fix the error of the “VMware Workstation NAT not working” after starting the NAT Service by using services.msc command in the Run window.

Final Word

VMware Workstation NAT Configuration – I have step by step worked telling you the topic called the VMware Workstation NAT Configuration. In this way, we have also done the VMware Internet connection. The VMware Internet connection only actualizes in the NAT config or Bridged config. The VMware NAT settings are very simple as it’s seen.

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